The Brown School of the History of Science: Historiography and the Astral Sciences

In: The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World
Author:
Francesca Rochberg
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5–17
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004315631_003

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Series:  Time, Astronomy, and Calendars, Volume: 6
Cover The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World
E-Book ISBN:
9789004315631
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2016
Front Matter
Introduction
Astral Knowledge in an International Age: Transmission of the Cuneiform Tradition, ca. 1500–1000 B.C.
Traditions of Mesopotamian Celestial-Divinatory Schemes and the 4th Tablet of Šumma Sin ina Tāmartišu
The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge between Babylon and Uruk
The Micro-Zodiac in Babylon and Uruk: Seleucid Zodiacal Astrology
Virtual Moons over Babylonia: The Calendar Text System, Its Micro-Zodiac of 13, and the Making of Medical Zodiology
On the Concomitancy of the Seemingly Incommensurable, or Why Egyptian Astral Tradition Needs to be Analyzed within Its Cultural Context
Some Astrologers and Their Handbooks in Demotic Egyptian
The Anaphoricus of Hypsicles of Alexandria
Interpolated Observations and Historical Observational Records in Ptolemy’s Astronomy
Mesopotamian Lunar Omens in Justinian’s Constantinople
A Parallel Universe: The Transmission of Astronomical Terminology in Early Chinese Almanacs
Mercury and the Case for Plural Planetary Traditions in Early Imperial China
Calendrical Systems in Early Imperial China: Reform, Evaluation and Tradition
The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac during the Tang and Song Dynasties: A Set of Signs Which Lost Their Meanings within Chinese Horoscopic Astrology
On the Dunhuang Manuscript P.4071: A Case Study on the Sinicization of Western Horoscope in Late 10th Century China
Were Planetary Models of Ancient India Strongly Influenced by Greek Astronomy?
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